WHATEVER WE SOW, SO SHALL WE REAP.......

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About 8 yrs. back I feel like listening some good Gurbani (The preachings of Guru) and got a CD having some of good spiritual sayings mentioning about the facts of life. While hearing many of them, I heard one of the story which relates ones with consequences of past karma. That story left an impact over me and I still listen sometimes. The story goes like this:

Once there was a rich man, having very good business and among the successful man of society. He had a beautiful wife. She really takes care of him and advises him as and when he needed. They had got everything but left with one sorrow i.e. not having any child. Both of them tried to get treated from various doctors, mantriks, tantriks etc but nothing succeeded. However they had an obedient and loyal servant. He honestly kept everything on track for them i.e. from their house hold chores to all business affairs. Due to his behaviour even the rich man treated him as his nearer trustworthy. His wife also treated him equally and took care of him like a family member.  Sooner the rich man and his wife realised that they would not get any child so they started treating him as their adopted son and put some of share in the business for him. With the grace of god and good fortunes of the servant the business started flourishing and got multiplied with in span of months. The profits reached high and high that even the little share of servant gets in billions. This had raised the greediness in the rich man and his wife. They did not want the share to be given to servant. So they conspired with one of their friend who was a doctor. The rich man’s wife cooked unhealthy food for servant. Due to that the servant got sick and doctor was called. The doctor while treating him gave poisonous medicine to him. After consuming the medicine, the servant got terribly ill and subsequently died. The rich man paid some money to doctor in lieu of his help for killing the servant. After some time the wife got pregnant as well and both of them felt blessed by this, they gave a huge party to all they know. After due period, the woman gave a birth to a boy-child. The boy was very handsome and intelligent. He was provided with best life. He was taught by the best teachers. The rich man and his wife loved him very mush. Whatever the boy asked for, immediately brought for him. After some time he took care of business as well. Life was going smooth and comfortable. As he grew up the suitable proposals for marriage had started coming for him. The rich man and his wife found a suitable match for him and got him married with a beautiful girl. The marriage was a grand affair, attended by who’s of whom of society. The function/reception was gala even the king came for blessing the bride and groom. The rich man and his wife felt the luckiest ones for having such the respect, honour and popularity in the society.

Next morning as they woke up and found that their son was not well and could not got up from bed. The best known doctors were called and best treatment was given. The newly married wife forgot about her marriage and immediately started serving her husband. Despite best efforts and good spending of money was not taking anywhere and the condition was getting worsen.  Slowly with the passage of time the business started ruining and money started finishing. The rich man had to sell out his house, business, jewellery, and all house hold items for the treatment of his son. Ultimately all of them shifted to a rented hut where a day had come when they did not have anything for eating nor to pay the fees of doctors. The rich man and his wife were scared and confused. They prayed to god that what bad they had done so they were seeing such a difficult phase of their life. The son’s bride was also there as due to condition of her husband she was taken as jinx by all. She was also in pain that despite marriage she was still living a life w/o happiness. All of sudden the son who was lying on floor started laughing loudly. On seeing he laughing all of them asked about the matter. He replied that next morning he would die as time had come. On hearing that they all started weeping and asked reason for saying so. The son asked them to see his face carefully. On seeing the face the rich man and his wife got frightened as they could see their murdered servant in the face of their son. They could know that that was the time for pay back for their sin committed against their loyal and obedient servant by killing him. They tried to pacify their son not to sacrifice his life for their sin but he told them he had born with this purpose in that life. The father/ mother asked him that it was OK for him to punish them but what is the mistake of his newly wedded wife. On that he disclosed that she was the doctor in previous life that killed him. After hearing that they all became mum and had nothing to say. Next morning their son left his body for onward journey. The father/ mother/ wife became volunteers and started serving poor and needy. They put their life for service to mankind and god.

So that was the lesson of life : "WHATEVER WE SOW, SO SHALL WE REAP......."